According to the rider of the motorcycle involved in the Appiatse explosion, he did not collide with the explosive-carrying truck as previously reported.
He told the Ghana News Agency that he was hit from behind by another vehicle and rushed to a nearby health facility before the explosion.
He stated that he was being treated at the hospital when he was informed that a truck had exploded.
“I did not collide with the said truck, nor was I present at the time of the explosion,” the rider (name withheld) explained.
“I’m not sure where that story is coming from because I wasn’t there.” When the accident happened, I didn’t see any truck around me. “I was riding in a tricycle with one other woman, and the two of us were transported to the health facility.”
“The people who brought us to the hospital later told me that it was a sprinter bus that hit my tricycle and that the driver fled after the accident,” he insisted.
According to preliminary police investigations, a mining explosive vehicle travelling from Tarkwa to the Chirano Gold Mines collided with a motorcycle, resulting in the explosion at Appiatse, a farming community located between Bogoso and Bawdie in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality in the Western Region.
On Sunday, January 23, 2022, a team of investigators from the Ghana Police Service’s Criminal Investigative Department interrogated the truck driver and the rider of the motorcycle suspected of being involved in the accident.
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